cryptozoological

• october 20, 1967 | patterson-gimlin film shot - northern california

extraterrestrial

• april 17, 1897 | aurora, texas ufo incident - aurora, texas - cigar-shaped airship crashed into windmill, killing extraterrestrial pilot, "ned"
• june 24, 1947 | kenneth arnold ufo sighting - mount rainier, washington - "they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water."
• june & july 1947 | roswell incident - roswell, new mexico - a rancher found strange debris from a wreckage on his land, which the army base first claimed was a "flying disc," but later changed the story to a "weather balloon"
• january 7, 1948 | mantell ufo incident - franklin, kentucky - crashed his p-51 mustang after pursuing a ufo
• july 19 - 29, 1952 | invasion of washington - washington, d.c. - unexplained radar contacts and mass ufo sightings over the nation's capital
• september 12, 1952 | flatwoods monster/braxton county monster - flatwoods, west virginia - extraterrestrial encounter
• august 21, 1955 | kelly-hopkinsville encounter - christian county, kentucky - a family and friends are attacked by small goblin-like extraterrestrials who floated or staggered when shot at
• october 11, 1973 | pascagoula abduction - pascalouga, mississippi - abduction of charles hickson and calvin parker
• january 23, 1974 | berwyn mountain ufo incident - llandrillo, merionethshire, wales - mass ufo sighting
• december, 6, 1978 | zanfretta ufo incident - genoa, italy - extraterrestrial encounter and spaceship sighting
• december 29, 1980 | cash-landrum incident - dayton, texas - betty cash, vickie landrum, her grandson colby encounter a diamond shaped ufo emitting heat and flames; later they suffered burns and symptoms resembling radiation sickness
• november 17, 1986 | ufo encounter of japan airlines cargo flight 1628 - alaskan airspace -_sighting of "two small ships and the mothership" ufos_
• september 16, 1994 | ariel school ufo incident_ - ruwa, zimbabwe - 62 children saw a ufo and had a telepathic encounter with the occupants of the craft
• march 13, 1997 | phoenix lights - phoenix, arizona | mass ufo sighting

paranormal/supernatural

folkoric/legendary

historical

• july 16, 1945 | trinity nuclear weapon test - trinity site, new mexico
• march 1952 | project blue book begins
• january 1953 | robertson panel
• december 15, 1967 | collapse of silver bridge - point pleasant, west virginia
• december 17, 1969 | project blue book ends
• november 16, 1974 | arecibo message sent to messier 13 - arecibo telescope, puerto rico

other/miscellaneous

• december 5, 1945 | disappearance of flight 19 - atlantic ocean
• august 7, 1994 | oakville blobs - oakville, washington